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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Further Reading The full and abbreviated Global Assessment Report 2019 can both be freely downloaded from [link] Alexander, D.E. Linnerooth-Bayer (eds) 2019. Mechler, R.,

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Serious Trouble With the National Flood Ins. Program

Recovery Diva

. “The upshot is that FEMA flood hazard maps that determine coverage today rely on outdated information so inaccurate that more than 40 percent of NFIP claims made from 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones or in areas the agency had not mapped at all.”

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Top 3 Emergency Notification Tips for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019

On Solve

Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019 is May 13 ? The post Top 3 Emergency Notification Tips for Business Continuity Awareness Week 2019 appeared first on OnSolve. This global event is a time to consider business continuity and the value an effective continuity management program can have for your organization. Download The Poster.

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Profile of FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell

Recovery Diva

In 2019, she became the first woman to lead New York City’s Emergency Management Department, where — less than a year into the job — she helped navigate the city through the darkest days of the coronavirus pandemic. From CNN.com: How Deanne Criswell blazed a trail from fighting fires to running FEMA.

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What is COBIT? COBIT Explained

BMC

Its latest iteration, COBIT 2019 , has revamped parts of its framework while offering much-needed updates that accounts for ever-present cybersecurity threats and the incorporation of Agile and DevOps practices. In November 2018, big changes came to COBIT when ISACA released COBIT 2019. COBIT 2019 Foundation. Maturity models.

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New Report: Streamlining Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

In fact, FEMA noted that “the number of annual disasters that [they] have managed has tripled in the past ten years and highlights the pivotal moment that climate change and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have created.”.

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Community Points of Distribution (CPODS)

Disaster Zone Podcast

Eight counties in Western Washington State have banded together to do regional planning. Eight counties in Western Washington State have banded together to do regional planning.